Welcome to hirosanblog! by Ryo Hirosawa, the first Japanese man who learned human echolocation from Juan Ruiz, Brin Bushway and Daniel Kish. photogenic instinct that hasn't die after losing his eyesight completely, he continues to see the world through the lens by sound.
廣澤亮トイウゼンモウデス。デ本人で初めて、米国で人間のエコー（ロケーション反響定位）の技術を学びました。
全盲になっても写真が趣味。盲人写真家(のつもりで)写真を多くちりばめながラ、シカクショウガイシャノシテンカラ、ブログヲシッピツシテイキマス。

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Off to San Diego for the Weekend - 全盲一人サンディエゴまでの冒険旅行

For the weekend, I get some time off from echolocation and the other blindness rehabilitation training, and I am off to San Diego to meet up with friends of mine.

The original plans are, I supposed to leave at Daniel's house alone, take a bus to Greyhound terminal then grab a Greyhound bus to San Diego, but he figured I am not ready for taking a bus and find a greyhound bus terminal by myself, Daniel offered an option to come with me to Greyhound terminal.

Daniel and I left his home, and he instructs me as I walk with a long, white interim cane borrowed from him and clicking around as we walk his neighbours. Walking with echolocation as Daniel corrects things I am not doing right... it's like an another day of echolocation and perceptual mobility training!

After a few minute wait, a bus came, so we got on. It's no cheaper than free! I was not asked to pay for this portion of bus ride... a driver did not ask me to show any kind of disability certificate of the sort like Japan!

After getting off the bus, the greyhound bus terminal is a couple of blocks away, on the other side of the street... but Daniel made me to find the terminal with a little hint that I should go left after crossing a street!

As the location is close to downtown Long Beach, there are many people who saw my white cane and bumping into trees and signs on the sidewalk offer to help and guide me, but Daniel politely rejected their offers.

Then, I finally found myself at greyhound bus terminal. Daniel gave me a hint of where the counter is, telling by the voice of ticket guy and passengers talking.Yes, indeed! I heard a guy talking at the counter he wants to get on this bus but a ticket guy was explaining it's already full... Hmm...Anyway, I queue for a ticket...

...and I found out that the bus I wanted to get is already full!

They put me on the 2nd on standby list. We shall see whether I could get a seat...

After all... I got a seat!The guy on the 1st and the 2nd on standby got a seat, and a lady behind me did not.

Previously, Daniel told methat Greyhound staff often guide me to take the frontmost seat for handicapped people like me. I should avoid the frontmost seats because it often do not give enough legroom than the 2nd row and back, but the only seat that is available was in the 1st row.Despite that Daniel said, I found there is more than enough legroom for me and my cane, probably Daniel's legs are much longer than mine, but I am glad I got a seat so this won't screw my trip to San Diego.

About Me

Ryo Hirosawa is an advantitiously blind man since 2009, after suffering from glaucoma caused by Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy. Though I was given 1 year to live, I've lived over decades.
While this society in Japan tried to exclude me, I decided to fly to America to learn human echolocation to reclaim independence, freedom and responsibility. Now I have a skill to "see the world by sound" and still in the process of "recovery and discovery."
Photography is the part of my whole life, and the instinct never dies after becoming completely blind with absolutely no sense of light. Now I'm "seeing through the lens with sound" and continue shooting phothave a look at my photos on flickr or instagram under username "blindhirosan"
cheers and thanks for checking my profile!
ひろサワ亮と言います。特発性拡張型心筋症に起因する緑内障から、全盲になりました。引きこもりの毎日の中で、社会から疎遠になっていく自分を変えたいと思い、アメリカで人間のエコーロケーション（反響定位）を、ホワン・ルイズ、ダニエル・キッシュとブライアン・ブッシュウェイから学びました。絵エコロケーションの訓練の日々は、音による新しい発見の毎日でした。
失明以前から写真を撮るのが好きで、視覚障害者になって、写真を撮るのを諦めかけましたが、現在はエコーロケションを駆使して、全盲写真家のつもりで写真を撮っています。ほとんどの写真は、ウリッカーもしくはInstagram(blindhirosan)で公開していますので、どうぞご覧ください。